Tag Archives: rose
the damned – new rose (1976)
Psych music for driving to work on a Sunday. 🌹
paul celan – the no-one’s-rose (1963)
PSALM
No one kneads us again out of earth and clay,
no one incants our dust.
No one.
Blessed art thou, No One.
In thy sight would
we bloom.
In thy
spite.
A Nothing
we were, are now, and ever
shall be, blooming:
the Nothing-, the
No-One’s-Rose.
With
our pistil soul-bright,
our stamen heaven-waste,
our corona red
from the purpleword we sang
over, O over
the thorn.Paul Celan, “Psalm” from Selected Poems and Prose, translated by John Felstiner. Copyright © 2001 by John Felstiner.
sucker for a visual pun
1677 map of bohemia as a rose
A map that shows Bohemia as a stylised Hapsburg rose. The stem firmly connects the flowering Bohemian rose to the fertile soil of Vienna, the Habsburg’s political centre. The Latin text at the bottom explains:
There grew a graceful Rose in the Bohemian woods, and an armoured lion standing guard next to her. That Rose had grown out of the blood of Mars, not of Venus. […] Do not fear, lovely Rose! There comes the Austrian. […] The Rose of Bohemia, bloody for all the centuries, where more than 80 battles were waged. She has been now drawn in this form for the first time.
Read more about this strange propaganda map HERE.
a rose is a rose is a rose
Read more about this book HERE.
marlene dietrich – cherche la rose
Released on Columbia in 1962 as the B-side of “Qui peut dire ou vont les fleurs?”, “Cherche la Rose” was arranged and conducted by Burt Bacharach and recorded in Paris. This animated video was made by someone who calls him/herself Maldoror, in Budapest, in 2011.
